Please join Jessica Ground and the Sustainable Investment team as they dive into the ESG topics currently making waves.

No one wants to vacation on a beach full of plastic. With more regions talking about banning some plastic items, what is the impact for the plastics supply chain, and end users. Meanwhile, as summer temperatures reach record highs, we will revisit our Schroders Climate Progress Dashboard a year on from launch and see how the thermostat is re-calibrating. Finally, as you pack up the car for your big summer trip, is there a residual risk that is not being captured within the auto loan industry, despite banks tighten up their consumer protection rules and processes?

Please join Jessica Ground and the Sustainable Investment team as they dive into the ESG topics currently making waves.

No one wants to vacation on a beach full of plastic. With more regions talking about banning some plastic items, what is the impact for the plastics supply chain, and end users. Meanwhile, as summer temperatures reach record highs, we will revisit our Schroders Climate Progress Dashboard a year on from launch and see how the thermostat is re-calibrating. Finally, as you pack up the car for your big summer trip, is there a residual risk that is not being captured within the auto loan industry, despite banks tighten up their consumer protection rules and processes?

Johanna Kyrklund, Global Head of Multi-Asset Investments, provides a mid-year assessment of the Team’s cyclical & risk scenarios, as well as where they anticipate opportunities arising across the global markets. Topics to be discussed include:

* Are risks in the global economy moving from a reflationary bias to stagflation?
* Mid-term scorecard for the Fed
* Comparing & contrasting European versus US opportunities and risks
* Is it time to re-engage with emerging markets from an asset allocator’s perspective?
* And Q&A

A variety of market and political volatility year to date have investors laser-focused on the global economic backdrop. With valuations pushing historical limits, a stable but flattening yield curve, trade wars and of course China’s 2018 NPC moving their new lower-growth agenda forward, Schroders Azad Zangana examines where he and the Economics team are seeing smoke -- and where there might actually be fire -- as this unprecedented "Goldilocks" economic cycle continues to chart new territory.

This webinar, Jessica Ground, Global Head of Stewardship & team will discuss the global trends they’re seeing regarding the practices of the leading Asset Owners in this area. There are also some exciting initiatives that are likely to shape our industry in the years to come, in particular the focus on alternatives and private equity (PE), where we are seeing an increasing number of managers integrating ESG into their investment process and working with the PRI on the PE asset class.

Please join Nick Field of the Schroders Emerging Market Equities team as he provides the Team's thematic views on the sweeping demographic changes taking place in China, Brazil, and other key global EM societies – and what these changes mean for EM investors.

There's been a lot going on in the credit markets since our last event in January, so this session David will begin with the current state of credit given the current rising rate environment. He will also provide views on FinTech, Blockchain and their impact on a variety of credit sectors, including Banks and Financials. Will FinTech lead to disruption, or unprecedented advancement?

Please join Ashwin Patni, Fund Manager and Head of Products and Jigar Gandhi, India Investment Specialist from Axis Asset Management to discuss the resurgent Indian economy and the opportunities we see in the market.

Please join ILS experts Dirk Lohmann, Head of ILS and Daniel Ineichen, Head of Portfolio Management ILS to discuss the all-important January 2018 renewals season. After an extremely eventful 2017, we will discuss impact on rates and portfolio yields as well as other key topics for the industry.